CATEGORY ARCHIVES: ddos

Cyber criminals will create roughly 100 million new malware variants over the next 12 months. Security vendors will respond with new malware signatures and behaviors to stop them, but thousands of companies will be victimized in the process, experiencing costly or catastrophic breaches. This isn’t new - it’s a cycle.

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Kasidet (also known as Neutrino Bot) is a malware targeting Point of Sale (POS) devices that performs memory scraping to steal credit card information and browser hooking to steal sensitive data from web browsers on infected devices.

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There have been a number of reports in the last week or two of websites that are apparently being DDoSed from IP addresses in the PRC. This has caused a certain amount of confusion and pain to those affected because there seemed to be no reason for the attack, however the cause has now become clear. As Sucuri explain on their blog, the cause appears to be the so-called "Great Firewall of China":